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William Kingdon Clifford quotes: He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it already in his heart.

He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it already in his heart.

William Kingdon Clifford quotes: Thought is powerless, except it make something outside of itself: the thought which conquers the world is not contemplative but active.

Thought is powerless, except it make something outside of itself: the thought which conquers the world is not contemplative but active.

William Kingdon Clifford quotes: The scientific discovery appears first as the hypothesis of an analogy; and science tends to become independent of the hypothesis.

The scientific discovery appears first as the hypothesis of an analogy; and science tends to become independent of the hypothesis.

William Kingdon Clifford quotes: If a belief is not realized immediately in open deeds, it is stored up for the guidance of the future.

If a belief is not realized immediately in open deeds, it is stored up for the guidance of the future.

William Kingdon Clifford quotes: Nor is it that truly a belief at all which has not some influence upon the actions of him who holds it.

Nor is it that truly a belief at all which has not some influence upon the actions of him who holds it.

William Kingdon Clifford quotes: An atom must be at least as complex as a grand piano.

An atom must be at least as complex as a grand piano.

William Kingdon Clifford quotes: No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.

No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.

William Kingdon Clifford quotes: To know all about anything is to know how to deal with it under all circumstances.

To know all about anything is to know how to deal with it under all circumstances.

William Kingdon Clifford quotes: Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has been created by society for social purposes.

Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has been created by society for social purposes.

William Kingdon Clifford quotes: We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.

We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.

William Kingdon Clifford quotes: It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

William Kingdon Clifford quotes: When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that.

When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that.